Math Workshop

Teachers like Miss Stanley (grade 2) have learned about the math workshop model and are using it as a way of teaching math in their classrooms.  This model allows for differentiation of instruction, which means teaching students in the way that they learn best and working within a model that allows you to teach at a student's level.  In this room, the teacher teaches a brief focused lesson to the entire class and then breaks the students into groups to work on specific (connected) activities.  You will see students working on different applications on our new iPads, using manipulatives to visualize place value, and paper/pencil practice opportunities.  Students are also playing games from the EveryDay Math curriculum.  Enjoy these pictures.  Students circulate from station to station as they complete the activities.  Today, I enjoyed working with a student on IXL (on an iPad).  This math program is adaptive, in that it gets more difficult as the student answers questions correctly.  In this lesson, Miss Stanley directed the students to the specific unit she wanted them to begin on…..what a great model!!!